An abuse of power or authority over a market to prevent consumers from buying or using the product or service of a competitor. See conflict of interest and monopoly.
When MyCrudSoft first rolled out sWindles, they made sure that it produced an error message while installing onto a better version of DOS than their own, leading consumers to think the better DOS was flawed, even though sWindles worked with it just fine.
Kneejerk Corruptions, Incorrigible will do anything they can to prevent the owner of a domain from transferring it to another registrar. They did it best when they were also the register with which all the other registrars had to register domains.
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A category of literature or entertainment.
My favorite genre is Science Fiction.
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Valspeak for a cross between a turkey and a nerd.
Watch out, turkinerds! Your goose is cooked!
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1. (meteorology and fire science) n. A lightning bolt that touches the ground or a grounded object, (a common cause of wildland fires). v. Touch the ground as a lightning bolt.
2. (typing, keyboarding, and music) n. The action of pressing a key on the keyboard of a typewriter or keyboard instrument. v. Strike a keyboard key. adj. The kind of typewriter that has a mechanical keyboard, which requires strong downstrikes upon the keys.
3. (warfare) n. A downward chopping attack in hand-to-hand melee or combat.
4. (music) n. A downward plucking motion on a stringed instrument. v. Pluck downward.
5. (music) proper noun; the name of at least three different newly formed garage bands in the eastern United States of America since 2002.
6. (geography and geology) n. A downward direction.
7. (sport fishing and fishing industry) n. A downward tug on a fishing line. v. Tug downward on a fishing line as a fish, or as a prank played upon a fellow fisherman who has fallen asleep.
8. (cyberculture) proper noun; me.
1. There's a smoke column where that downstrike hit.
2. I used to have a downstrike typewriter.
3. Comments mentioning downstrikes on the Internet used to be about using battle axes; now they're about using light sabers.
4. It's a note, not a chord; just downstrike.
5. With three bands named Downstrike, at least one of them should be good.
6. The fault is downstrike from the ridge.
7. That downstrike is what I'm waiting for.
8. Typewriters and rock bands come and go, but when you Google downstrike I'm at the top of the results.
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An author of some clever daffynitions.
AYB wrote daffynitions of we need to talk, tornado alley, valley girl, cult, Christianity, obese, freedom fries, and Life. Darn! Some duh-weeb removed some of his better ones.
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The most northern infection caused by spore cast from Los Angeles.
Don't go to Pelican Bay if you don't want to catch the Los Angeles infection.
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To repair returned merchandise. Not necessarily synonymous with refurbishing, depending on company policy.
We don't rebuild here, we just refurbish.
We don't call it refurbished unless it's rebuilt.
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